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...urge extreme caution in interpreting this change. An increase in diagnosis does not necessarily mean that more children actually have ASD. Unfortunately, the information that we currently have doesn't allow us to give a true account of whether the apparent increase is an actual increase or the result of changes in the way we describe and diagnose ASDs...
...Today, the prints that result from the STPI's artist residencies are generating ever-higher sums. Each of the 34 lithographic prints of the female nude Agus has produced, for example, is expected to fetch roughly $7,000 while bigger works will go for roughly $14,000. That's modest by the standards of the art market, where an Agus painting at auction can fetch over $100,000. Nonetheless this is far more than Asians have spent on prints in the past, and that's because the perception of printmaking is finally changing. Somewhere, far above the college dorms...
...Thailand's political deadlock is often posited as a battle between urban and rural, rich and poor. Certainly elements of these divisions infect the body politic. But the strife is also the result of a clash between two sets of political élites that have failed to find common ground. Pitched against Abhisit, the scion of an old Thai-Chinese family with connections to the country's royalty, is Thaksin, who is everything the current PM is not: a brash, populist, new-money billionaire who was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail on a conflict-of-interest conviction...
...business is trying to get people interested, and you don't know what might result from that," he said. "Some would say it's friend-raising rather than fundraising...
...Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he was delighted by the "decisive" vote. "Today we have done the right thing for our own future and the future of our children," he said. Cowen's relief was echoed across the whole of the E.U., where leaders had been watching the result as closely as the Irish. (The Union operates by consensus, meaning major policy questions have to be approved by all 27 member states.) "I am really glad with the result," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. "The Irish people have spoken. They have said a resounding yes to Europe...